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The unthinking have censured this as partiality, as a preference without merit to deserve it. But they never reflect that it is not in the power even of heaven itself to make the offer of unceasing felicity as great a gift to the happy as to the miserable. To the first eternity is but a single blessing, since at most it but encreases what they already possess.
You can't come any adoption dodge over me, Force. She's already adopted. She " "But, great heaven, man, my wife wouldn't have her in the house if if she knew the truth about her," exploded the wretched Force. "No woman would stand for that." "Then, by the eternal Moses," shouted Mr. Bingle, "she'll stay right here with Daddy and Mammy Bingle." "But she's mine!
Sparling sprang to one side, knowing full well that it would be better to lose the lion than to stir up the audience more than they already were stirred. Phil was in full pursuit, cracking his whip at every jump. Wallace leaped through the open flap at the lower end of the tent and disappeared in the night. Just as he did so there came a sound different from anything that had preceded it.
We have already alluded to Japan; for a long time the barbarian Ainos, the earliest inhabitants of the country, were acquainted with nothing but stone.
I have been already to a shop where they sell skins of birds, and have half ruined myself in purchases for hats. I saw some of them alive in a cage in the market with many other kinds of small birds, and several pairs of those pretty grass or zebra paroquets, which are called here by the very inharmonious name of "budgerighars."
As with Hegel, the future is ignored, progress is confined within a closed system, the highest circle has already been reached. As an opponent of the ideologists and the sensational philosophy on which they founded their speculations, Cousin appealed to the orthodox and all those to whom Voltairianism was an accursed thing, and for a generation he exercised a considerable influence.
That battle commenced the career of Sir Arthur Wellesley, whose after-success, however, has been attended by such important consequences. Whilst we experienced this check in Spain the English were attempting an expedition to Holland, where they had already made themselves masters of Walcheren.
"This is a purely formal inquiry, to permit of a death certificate being issued. You will oblige me, therefore, by answering my questions without introducing any extraneous subject." Ingerman adhered to these instructions. Having already shot a carefully-prepared bolt, he meant avoiding any further conflict with the authorities. His evidence was brief and to the point. The deceased was his wife.
Of late, however, they have seemed to grow fainter, and there are already signs of the idealistic reaction that is sure to come. Meanwhile the day of Schiller does not pass and is not likely to pass.
The managing editor of the Press took up the india-rubber speaking- tube at his side, and answered, "Not yet" to an inquiry the night editor had already put to him five times within the last twenty minutes. Then he snapped the metal top of the tube impatiently, and went up- stairs.
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